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Unidentified Mountaineer mascot.

1. Mountaineer, West Virginia University

IDNO:: 022418
Title:: Mountaineer, West Virginia University
Description:: Unidentified Mountaineer mascot.

The event took place during Mountaineer Weekend.

2. Basket of Flowers Presented to Miss Mountaineer Barbara Romano, West Virginia University

IDNO:: 024394
Title:: Basket of Flowers Presented to Miss Mountaineer Barbara Romano, West Virginia University
Date:: 1958
Description:: The event took place during Mountaineer Weekend.

3. Fi Bater Capper Members, the Mountaineer, and Cheerleaders, Run onto the Field, West Virginia University

IDNO:: 024620
Title:: Fi Bater Capper Members, the Mountaineer, and Cheerleaders, Run onto the Field, West Virginia University
Date:: 1969

4. Cheerleaders, Mountaineer, and Fi Batar Cappar Bringing the Team onto the Field, West Virginia University

IDNO:: 024646
Title:: Cheerleaders, Mountaineer, and Fi Batar Cappar Bringing the Team onto the Field, West Virginia University
Date:: 1965

5. WVU Football Team Running onto the Field Led by Fi Beta Cappar Members

IDNO:: 024648
Title:: WVU Football Team Running onto the Field Led by Fi Beta Cappar Members
Date:: 1963

WVU's first female Mountaineer mascot. One of seven children raised on a family farm in Marion County and the second girl in her family to be her high school mascot, Natalie Tennant sees her role as WVU Mountaineer as part of a longstanding family legacy. In her public appearances, she reminder her audiences, "Our grandmothers and Great-grandmothers were Mountaineers way before I was."

6. Portrait of Natalie Tennant

IDNO:: 037182
Title:: Portrait of Natalie Tennant
Date:: 1990
Description:: WVU's first female Mountaineer mascot. One of seven children raised on a family farm in Marion County and the second girl in her family to be her high school mascot, Natalie Tennant sees her role as WVU Mountaineer as part of a longstanding family legacy. In her public appearances, she reminder her audiences, "Our grandmothers and Great-grandmothers were Mountaineers way before I was."